About this role
Job SummaryYou will serve as a SHIPFITTER (FLANGE TURNER) in the Structural Shop in the Production Department Code 920 of PEARL HARBOR NSY AND IMF.
QualificationsAlthough a specific length of time and experience is not required for most trade and labor occupations, you must show through experience and training that you possess the quality level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of the position at the level for which you are applying. Qualification requirements emphasis is on quality of experience, not necessarily the length of time. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the job elements and screen out listed below. This job has a screen-out element which will be used to determine minimum eligibility for this job. Applicants who do not receive a minimum of two points on the screen-out element(s) will be found ineligible. The Screen-out Element for this position is: ABILITY TO DO THE WORK OF THE POSITION WITHOUT MORE THAN NORMAL SUPERVISION Applicants must meet the requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Job Qualification Handbook for Trades and Labor Occupations. Additional qualification information can be found at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/federal-wage-system-qualifications/#url=List-of-Approved-Job-Elements Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
Major DutiesYou will work from blueprints, templates, mock-ups, or marked stock and determines machine, heating, and hand operations required based on size and thickness of stock.You will perform other shaping and bending operations with heavy hydraulic machinery.You will use molds, forms, templates or blueprints, and working with hot or cold stock, bends and shapes plates, bars, channels, and I-beams by bending material over forms using sledgehammers, shaping tools, and weights.You will lay out, fabricates, assemblies, and installs various metal structural assemblies, structures and pieces for ships and other vessels.You will apply methods and procedures used in the bending and shaping of ship structural plates and shapes.You will operate oxy/acetylene gas heating torches.You will read blueprints, Job Orders or JIC specifications, sketches, manuals, memos and other trade-related information.You will make shop calculations using ordinary arithmetic, geometry and other trade related mathematical methods.